"Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it."

"So if people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they’ve never cried for a fictional character, then they’ve never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they’ve never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they’ve missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears."

"Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen."

"I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

"Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body."

"Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in."

"I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia."

"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches."

"Writing is something you do alone; it’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want make eye contact while telling it."

"She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous."

"I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it."

"‘You disappear so completely into your head sometimes,’ he said. ‘I wish I could follow you.’"

"I only know that I focus on words. The languish of language. I like words. They tell a story but tell it slant. We name things and then call that reality. How weird.
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